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Hi,

Anyone ever needed to do a partial key lookup in a dictionary?
By this for example I mean:

starting_key = myDict.getLike("Que*")
while starting_key is not None:
    print(myDict[starting_key])
    starting_key = starting_key.next()

then iterate from any keys matching the "Que*" until there are no more matches. A bit like the following SQL query that uses a wildcard lookup:

SELECT *
FROM EMPLOYEES E
WHERE E.NAME LIKE "DAR%"
/

Any suggestions as to how to achieve this efficiently?


Thanks

Gary

You can try

keys = fnmatch.filter(mydict, "Que*")